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therightinsight.org/Climate-Security-Panel
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6/4/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Elements of the consensed climate science community, the consensed climate change commentariat and numerous environmental activist groups have recently been “triggered” by Administration discussions regarding the formation of a ...
therightinsight.org/Climate-Sensitivity
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11/6/18 at 5:44 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Elements of the consensed climate science community have recently acknowledged that the projections of future global average near-surface temperature anomalies produced by the CMIP5 ensemble of climate models are 2-3 times higher ...
therightinsight.org/Climate-Signals
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10/30/18 at 5:54 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
New York City has recently placed several illuminated road signs throughout the city in cooperation with the Climate Museum as part of a program called “Climate Signals”. The signs are an attempt to call attention to the...
therightinsight.org/Climate-Uncertainty-and-Risk-the-presentation
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3/9/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Climate-Reparations
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1/10/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The UN COP27 concluded in mid-November with an agreement to work toward establishment of a funding mechanism to compensate developing countries for “loss and damage” resulting from the effects of anthropogenic climate change. ...
therightinsight.org/Climatologist-David-Dilley-Were-Going-Into-A-Global-Cooling-Cycle-Now
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2/23/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/CMIP6-GCMs-versus-global-surface-temperatures-ECS-discussion
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10/13/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/CO2-Control-Knob
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7/7/20 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Many members of the consensed climate science community refer to CO2 as the “control knob” of the climate. Some suggest that increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations resulting from human activities are solely responsible for the...
therightinsight.org/CO2-Graphs
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3/23/21 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The graphs below show atmospheric CO2 levels over the past 800,000 years and the past 1020 years. The longer term graph illustrates the cyclical nature of atmospheric CO2 concentrations, varying from a low of approximately 173 ppm to a high...
therightinsight.org/CO2-Saturation
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12/22/20 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The effect of CO2 in the globe’s atmosphere on global temperature is the result of the absorption of infrared radiation emitted from the surface of the globe toward space. The quantity of radiation emitted by the surface of the globe ...
therightinsight.org/Coal-in-His-Stocking
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12/21/21 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care
In hopes that Saint Nicholas soon would be there.
There is some question regarding the origins of the practice of placing a lump of coal, rather than candy or other treats, in someone’...
therightinsight.org/Code-Red-For-Sanity-The-Credibility-Crisis-At-The-IPCC
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7/28/22 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Cognitive-Dissonance
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9/26/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Cognitive dissonance is a term for the state of discomfort felt when two or more modes of thought contradict each other. The clashing cognitions may include ideas, beliefs, or the knowledge that one has behaved in a certain way. ...
therightinsight.org/Coincidence-Causation-Sea-Level
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9/22/20 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
- Coincidence: the occurrence of events that happen at the same time by accident but seem to have some connection, Merriam-Webster
- Causation: the act or agency which produces an effect, Merriam-Webster
- Contributory: of, relating to, or ...
therightinsight.org/Coincidence-Causation-Temperature
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9/15/20 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
- Coincidence: the occurrence of events that happen at the same time by accident but seem to have some connection, Merriam-Webster
- Causation: the act or agency which produces an effect, Merriam-Webster
- Contributory: of, relating to, or ...
therightinsight.org/Command-Push-Markets
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7/20/21 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Command economy is a system where the government takes the decision regarding goods production, process, quantity, and price in a country. In this system, the government also manages even income and investments. A Communist nation like the ...
therightinsight.org/Common-Precaution
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1/3/17 at 8:11 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Many climate activists claim that the Precautionary Principle requires that humanity cease using fossil fuels to avoid the potential of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change. That is a relatively absolutist interpretation of the ...
therightinsight.org/Consensus-and-Science
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4/25/23 at 7:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Consensus: general agreement, the judgement arrived at by most of those concerned, group solidarity in sentiment and belief (Source: Merriam-Webster)
Science: knowledge or a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of ...
therightinsight.org/COP-21-Agreement
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7/5/16 at 10:54 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The Obama Administration insisted that the Agreement reached at the conclusion of COP 21 in Paris, France not be legally binding on the parties because of the near-absolute certainty that the US Senate would not ratify the Agreement as a ...
therightinsight.org/Cost-Benefit-Analysis-in-the-Regulatory-Process
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9/5/17 at 6:15 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The US federal government has taken numerous actions to require cost / benefit analyses, or cost effectiveness analyses, regarding federal rulemaking activities. The intent of these actions is to assure that the rulemaking activities ...
therightinsight.org/Curiouser-and-Curiouser
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8/31/21 at 3:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Strange decisions are being made by numerous global governments which have committed under the Paris Accords to reduce CO2 emissions in an effort to limit the increase in the global average temperature anomaly to 1.5°C.
China is ...
therightinsight.org/CVOW-and-Storage
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11/8/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Dominion Energy has proposed to build Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) a 176 wind turbine farm off the Virginia coast. The Virginia Legislature had predetermined that such a project was in the public interest. The Virginia State ...
therightinsight.org/Defending-Climate-Orthodoxy
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1/9/18 at 6:42 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
scientific method: principles and procedures for the systematic pursuit of knowledge involving the recognition and formulation of a problem, the collection of data through observation and experiment, and the formulation and testing of ...
therightinsight.org/Demand-Pull-Markets
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7/13/21 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
A market economy is an economic system in which economic decisions and the pricing of goods and services are guided by the interactions of a country's individual citizens and businesses. There may be some government intervention or ...
therightinsight.org/Democrat-Climate-Platform
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10/13/20 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The 2020 Democrat Party Platform covers a broad range of topics. The section of the platform dealing with climate is entitled “Combating the Climate Crisis and Pursuing Environmental Justice”.
The section begins with the ...
therightinsight.org/Democrats-Platform-Up-Close-2016
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8/23/16 at 9:42 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“We believe America must be running entirely on clean energy by mid-century.”
The term “clean energy” is not defined in the platform, so it is not clear whether natural gas and propane are included, which leaves ...
therightinsight.org/Demonstration-Challenge
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11/28/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The stated goal of the US Administration’s renewable energy transition is to replace all dispatchable fossil-fueled electricity generation and all direct fossil fuel usage with renewable electricity to reduce CO2 emissions. Logically,...
therightinsight.org/Demonstration-Reporting
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4/5/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
This commentary suggests a reporting format for the renewable plus storage demonstration discussed in the prior two commentaries.
Pre-demonstration electricity generation ... |
therightinsight.org/Desperation
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3/24/20 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The 1970s were the decade of global cooling, hyped in the media with cover art and major articles in Time, Newsweek and other media outlets. Scientists were also concerned about global warming during that period, but the actual cooling ...
therightinsight.org/Diminishing-Impact-of-Increased-CO2
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11/21/17 at 7:26 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
“It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.” --Richard P. Feynman
The impact of incremental increases in ...
therightinsight.org/Dismantling-the-Royal-Society-Large-Scale-Electricity-Storage-Report
therightinsight.org/Dispatchable-Wind-and-Solar
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4/11/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Electricity demand fluctuates continuously, over a range of 2.5-3 to one. Electric utility operators control the output of numerous generation resources over their acceptable range of operation to match the contemporaneous demand of the ...
therightinsight.org/Does-Wind-Intermittance-Over-Short-Hourly-Periods-Gives-a-Clearer-Picture
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8/3/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Electric-Energy-Storage
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8/3/21 at 3:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The operation of the electric grid requires continuous balance between supply and demand. Electric demand fluctuates throughout the day and these fluctuations are significantly different between weekdays and weekend days. Electric ...
therightinsight.org/Electric-Transition
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2/15/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The US EIA graph below summarizes the sources and uses of energy in the US economy. The Administration has established a series of progressive goals to eliminate fossil fuel consumption in the energy economy and achieve Net Zero ...
therightinsight.org/Emissions-by-the-Numbers
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5/21/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
In my commentary “Emissions or Equity”, I discussed the philosophical issues regarding global “greenhouse gas” emissions reductions. Now let’s look at the numbers.
The graph below shows the trends in global ...
therightinsight.org/Emissions-or-Equity
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5/14/19 at 6:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
The first argument of the consensed climate science community is that global “greenhouse gas” emissions must be reduced to avoid a potential future climate catastrophe if the global average near-surface temperature increase ...
therightinsight.org/Endangered-Species-Reconsideration-of-the-EPA-Endangerment-Finding
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5/30/17 at 6:57 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
therightinsight.org/Energy-Efficiency-as-a-Climate-Change-Reform-Strategy-Are-we-just-throwing-money-at-the-problem
(For an introduction to this E3 blog series click here)
Put to one side for a moment whether we need to do anything about climate change. Assume it is real and we need to do “something.” There are a wide variety ...
therightinsight.org/Energy-Inflation-Was-by-Design
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10/27/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Energy-Policy-and-the-Presidential-Election
therightinsight.org/The-Consensus-on-Climate-Change-Facts-and-Myths
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8/11/16 at 8:35 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ken Malloy
"No challenge--no challenge--poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change. 2014 was the planet’s warmest year on record. Now, one year doesn’t make a trend, but this does: 14 of the 15... |
therightinsight.org/Energy-Security-is-National-Security
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4/27/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Energy-War-Similarities
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I...
therightinsight.org/Enlightened-Self-interest-Opposition-to-Trumps-Environmental-Policies
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5/23/17 at 6:28 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Prior to the US election in November 2016 the UNFCCC, the IPCC, the signatories to the Paris Accords and numerous environmental NGOs were quietly confident that the expected future Clinton Administration would continue the environmental ...
therightinsight.org/EPA-Endangerment-Finding
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5/9/17 at 7:07 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Several commentators have identified rescission or substantial revision of the 2009 EPA Endangerment Finding regarding CO2 and other “greenhouse gases” as the key to achieving the Trump Administration’s environmental ...
therightinsight.org/Epstein-on-Energy-Fossil_Future-on-Deck
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3/5/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
therightinsight.org/Estimates-and-Averages
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10/3/23 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Developers of renewable energy generation installations frequently focus their marketing efforts on estimates of the number of homes the installations would serve. The developers’ estimates are not based on consistent assumptions and ...
therightinsight.org/EV-Precautions
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11/15/22 at 7:00 AM
- Energy Policy,Climate Change
- Ed Reid
Precautionary Principle: An expression of a need by decision-makers to anticipate harm before it occurs. Within this element lies an implicit reversal of the onus of proof: under the precautionary principle it is the responsibility of an ...
therightinsight.org/Evidence-Communication
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12/15/20 at 3:00 AM
- Climate Change
- Ed Reid
A recent article in the journal Nature suggested five fundamental rules for evidence communication which apply well to science communication, though they are not always followed, particularly in climate science.
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